Injecting some heat into this Monday, we have a colourful styled shoot treat from an incredible team of wedding suppliers! This fun, bright and Fiesta-inspired creation centres around the magnificent tipi spaces provided by World Inspired Tents.

Over to Jodie to explain a little more about the styling…

Notes from World Inspired Tents

Jodie:

Twice a year we pitch four tipis for our spring and autumn Open Weekends, where brides and grooms come and see the tipis in all their glory. We are helped by brilliant stylists, florists and makers of all sorts of wedding-y loveliness, who make sure everything is looking its best.

The styling theme of each Open Weekend is developed through idea sharing between stylists and our events team (who spend most of their working days talking to our brides and grooms). We look for ideas that reflect current trends and work well with the tipis’ natural beauty.

Once the tipis are dressed to perfection, we take the opportunity to make the most of the hard work and get some lovely images, the latest of which are these bright beauties!

When we were sharing ideas for this shoot, the ongoing popularity of ‘festival style’ informal weddings among our customers was discussed, as was the power of bright colours in the tipis. We wanted a look that packed a punch, and the idea of the Fiesta theme felt like a good evolution of the ever-popular festival styling. The wonderful Kirsten of The Little Wedding Helper and Nat from Meadowsweet Vintage shared the tipi styling, brought ideas together and coordinated suppliers.

We used a whole spectrum of colours, although bright orange and fuchsia pink were at the heart of most of the styling. Flashes of yellow, purples, turquoise and greens were added, and basically it became a bit of a rainbow inside and outside the tipis!

Jenny from Edibile Essence Couture Cake Co interpreted the Fiesta theme with a with a four-tiered cake, decorated with a hand piped lace design, topped with intricate sugar flowers (including a Dahlia with 300 hand made petals!), and finished off with gold sugar skulls for a ‘Day of the Dead’ touch!

“The colours of the flowers really needed to pop to give a true fiesta feel, so a range of spicy colours was key. I combined strong raspberry-pink hydrangeas and bouvardia, cerise-tinted brassicas and ‘Scented Air’ spray roses with bold amber asclepias, tactile orange crocosmia, nodding heads of violet clematis ‘Inspiration’ and trailing lemon-yellow euphorbia. Pops of colour were also added with ball-shaped craspedia, and I was pleased to also find some vibrant green hazel corylus foliage which set everything off really well. The addition of pomegranates in table centre vases carried the colour theme through, and the overall look was fun and exciting…”

If you fancy interpreting this shoot for your own big day then collect all the ribbons, coloured glass, tea lights and bright fabrics that you can, and embrace the ‘more is more’ approach! There is a wildness to this theme which allows you to layer colours, textures and materials without too much concern about things clashing!

We simply adore the crafty team behind this shoot and of course you can find all their details in the credits, so get clicking to discover your own festival team! World Inspired Tents is very much at home in our directory and we love having them in the Coco Collection, you can find out more about these tipis right here.

Emma is the founder & curator of these award-winning pages. Passionate about venues, interiors and a good Whiskey Sour. You'll also find Emma working as a Creative Director consulting for wedding venues around the UK.